John B. Quinn is the Founding and Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, a 1000 lawyer firm which is the largest in the world devoted to business litigation. In polls John has been named the “most famous practicing lawyer in the world” at large law firms and the firm has been named the “most feared” firm in the world. Since its foundation in 1986, John and his partners have built an institution which The Wall Street Journal has termed a “global litigation powerhouse.” The firm has recovered over $70 billion for plaintiffs and has won comparable results for defendants. The firm has recently been engaged to represent Ukraine in proceedings against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg arising from the invasion of Ukraine.